Enemy of the Music Business
Album - 25 settembre 2000 - Debaser id 24478

Abstinence works for me, not for them
Intolerance, far worse things? This makes no sense

Get high on me and mine
Take the poison

Raise a voice? The art of making noise
Attacking stance? Fist in face for personal
choice

So witless? self, self, self.
Take the poison

Two polluting lifestyle doctrines in defense
Re-assess the threats to well-being
Re-direct
And clear your heads

Dialogue (is a) powerful drug?
(not) verbal poison

Abstinence works for me, not for them.
Intolerance, far worse things? this makes no sense

Take the poison

Next on the list?

Such a smug parasite
Snug in the comfort zone
We stepped back and watched while you violated
our effects, our spirits, our souls

Opportunist scum, think you're so immune?
Opportunist scum, we yearn to see you removed.
Opportunist scum, truly spineless cunt.
Opportunist scum, basks in his loathsome glow.

Where once I was passive, I'm ready to snap.
A pound of flesh for those that you've taken
That smiling surround can't shield you forever
When it slips, we'll be there to fuck your world!

A slap in the face
A slap in the face

Don't turn your back, don't lower your guard
Or assume you're safe around fellow sharks
'cause when I catch that patronizing smirk
(It) strengthens my will to smash your worthless bulk

A slap in the face
A slap in the face
A slap in the face

Goodbye to logic for this necessary justice [x 2]

The rats on/ this earth/ have nothing on you
An insult/ to those which/ crawl the sewers

Devourer, plunderer, deceptor

Sniff out a/ scheme/ and leave the scraps behind
Voracious, insatiable? A nose attuned to greed

Devourer, plunderer, deceptor

Evade all traps
and come out gnashing, snarling, gnashing, snarling!

Disguises are many
Media pawn or man on the street

They'll scavenge your emotions
and leave you diseased
They'd steal a last possession
And smile as you concede

Devourer, plunderer, deceptor

Mitch Harris, Jesse Pintado

Speculate freely
Begrudge me intensely
Lacking a conscience
Lacking intelligence
Lesser than nothing
Lower than everything
As you drain our vitality
to a mundane reality

A form of therapy
without compensation
A vague psychology

Free from obligation.
Intercept the negligence
Accept the consequence
Amongst Barbaria
Mass hysteria

Opposite in a sign to abide
when the future is ours to decide
We continue to watch and observe
Just to find out what purpose it serves

Paralysed ? A spectacle / for all to see
Hapiness within our grasp, but out of reach

Volume of neglect
forcibly expressed
Volume of neglect
forcibly expressed

Devastate a silhouette ? Calm and serene
Abandon / a systematic insane routine

Volume of neglect
forcibly expressed
Volume of neglect
forcibly expressed

Opposite in a sign to abide
when the future is ours to decide
We continue to watch and observe
Just to find out what purpose it serves

Blunt/ on the cuttong/ edge!

This is stylistic disaster
Or so I'm told
Won't meet your estimations
Do well to fold
Can't keep up
to the dummy run
Am I redundant?

Nice and neat
(with a) sideline in grief
I'll stay unkempt

A real cutting edge is th scourge of the norm
For all the angst, you're tantrum-fuelled dolls

Abrasiveness a convenience
Sell for a score
Come up clean doing the dirty
Cut and run, then dissolve

Mould in motion
See straight through
Transparent you

A real cuting edge is the scourge of the norm
For all the angst, you're tantrum-fuelled dolls

I'm blunted, I'm blunted on the cutting edge
Sharpness diminished through truth to myself

I'm rusted, I'm rusted on the cutting edge
Sight-lines cloud over when met with pretence

Together.
Drop the act!
Drop the act!

I'm blunted, I'm blunted on the cutting edge
Sharpness diminished through truth to myself

I'm rusted, I'm rusted on the cuting edge
Sight-lines cloud over when met with pretence

Drop the act!
Drop the act!

Cloaks of sickness/ keeping us sweet
Delusional blackness/ fictional madness
Visionary blackness/ traps are set
Revolving mind-doors/ conspiring our downfall

Which came first? The lies or deceit?
Why did the suffering cross the divide?
The dealer sold his soul/ to hide
And left us on the other side

The business lessons for which we burn
Desolate loops in which we turn
Saga of fools, a voyage of trust
No contracts bound

Gathering dust
Which came first? The secret or the crime?
Where does the loyalty cross the line?
The dealer sold his soul to hide
And left us on the other side

Tranquilize our denial
Vengeance is mine
Capitalize/ on regret
Kick aside what aspires
Vengeance is ours
Our defence won't expire

Eat the shit with a smile/ don't be frail
Our word is bound
Face the wall; fill the mould that we take
And break with our hands
Sign the line; it's your life
Don't be squeamish
Take the time, taste the sweat
Choke back your tongue

Mechanics, mechanics, mechanics of deceit
Glorified, butchered, bathed in malice

Sign the line; it's your life
Don't be squeamish
Take the time, taste the sweat
Choke back your tongue
at the shit with a smile, don't be frail

Our word is bound
Face the wall; fill the mould that we take
And break with our hands

Mechanics of deceit [x3]

Tranquilize our denial
Vengeance is mine
capitalize on regret
Kick aside what aspires
Vengeance is ours
Our defence won't expire--so beware!

Jesse Pintado

Name your price for progress
Impoverished settle the bill
Clear a path - coming through !
Clear a path - coming through !

Stylise
Make it easy / on the eye
Keep our distance -
too under-formed to grace the 'sublime'

Flatter to deceive
Building arthouse cosmetics
Like a mismatched prosthetic
Like a mismatched prosthetic

Spreads llike wildfire
Burgeoning yuppie nirvana
Highbrow aesthetics
Decadents always crave more

Marvel at / the sleek design
The wilting talk / of curves and lines
A piece-de / -resistance
To Banish my pig-ignorance

The public gets / what the public doesn't want
What use is this / to man or beast
It glosses over / basic needs

The public gets / what the public doesn't want
Access denied ? we're utter philistines
Access denied ? we're utter philistines

Caged in / the exclusion zone
Pass away / in sepia tones
Access denied ? accept we're cultural slime
Access denied ? accept we're cultural slime